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The actual alternative to capitalism that this far left seeks is anyone’s guess.
Since capitalism's beginnings, the market economy has been subject to fluctuations, to booms and busts.
China’s model of authoritarian efficiency seemed attractive to many other developing countries, particularly in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, which began in the United States and thus seemed to discredit American-style liberal capitalism.
What is increasingly apparent is that China’s leaders want the economic growth that capitalism produces, but without the downturns that come with it.
The history of the Soviet Union has alerted us that the last stage of Communism may well be crony capitalism.
Many of Ukraine’s richest citizens, who gained their wealth through the crony capitalism that is the only way Yanukovych knows how to govern, remain unreconciled to Ukraine’s democracy.
Decades ago, when intelligent machines and androids were found in science fiction rather than the real world, Milton Friedman, a champion of free-market capitalism, recommended a negative income tax to help the poor without undermining their incentive to work.
Disaster Capitalism Comes to Puerto RicoNEW YORK – It has been more than a year since Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, compounding the agony of a commonwealth that was already caught in an economic downward spiral.
Xi is determined to defy the trend-line of Western history, to see off Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” culminating in the general triumph of liberal democratic capitalism, and preserve a Leninist state for the long term.
Every (advanced) country has realized that making capitalism work requires giving individuals a fresh start.
Moreover, it turned out that US-style capitalism was neither efficient nor stable.
It is not too late to check the trend toward rentier capitalism.
But maybe those who oppose private seed corporations are really against capitalism and the market economy rather than GM seed.
It is in the realm of ideas that China’s political-economic model, regardless of its environmental consequences, is scoring victories and looking like an attractive alternative to liberal democratic capitalism.
Contrary to what some pundits say, Chinese capitalism is not like nineteenth-century European capitalism.
But even during the most ruthless phases of Western capitalism, civil society in Europe and the US was made up of a huge network of organizations independent of the state – churches, clubs, parties, societies, and associations that were available to all social classes.
If anything has been laid to rest by China’s rising wealth, it is the comforting idea that capitalism, and the growth of a prosperous bourgeoisie, will inevitably lead to liberal democracy.
The BJP’s record in government – flagrant financial malfeasance, a procession of Chief Ministers, charges of nepotism and crony capitalism, real-estate and mining scandals, policy paralysis, and a free rein to Hindu-chauvinist groups (who attacked pubs, assaulted girls for “indecency,” and disrupted Valentine’s Day) – elicited a decisive rebuke from the electorate.
As I argued last year, in the second edition of my book Irrational Exuberance , the boom is rooted in speculative investment by ordinary homebuyers, fueled substantially by the worldwide perception that capitalism has triumphed, and that all people must look out for themselves by acquiring property.
If home prices crash in the US, the bastion of capitalism, could it destroy confidence and end the boom in other countries?
Most importantly, the ultimate sources of the housing boom – the beliefs about capitalism and future economic growth – seem solidly entrenched.
Urban land prices in major Japanese cities have steadily dropped over much of the period since 1991, as the enormous faith in the miraculous powers of Japanese capitalism gradually faded.
All that is required is that growth in housing supply eventually outstrips investors’ faith in capitalism to sustain faster growth in demand.
Schadenfreude CapitalismPRINCETON – The protracted financial and economic crisis discredited first the American model of capitalism, and then the European version.
Asian critics looking at America and Europe could easily convince themselves that the Western model of democratic capitalism was collapsing.
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Argentina’s President Christina Kirchner liked to think that their versions of a controlled economy and society built in the aftermath of default on foreign debt offered a more viable alternative to cosmopolitan international capitalism.
Is capitalism just?
Someone who believes that capitalism is unjust shares something with others who hold the same belief.
In the end, ideology may be more important as the glue holding the group together than as a source of enlightenment on the nature of capitalism.
It has not evolved into a “normal” market economy, but rather into a peculiar form of crony-state capitalism.
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